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It's also great for making a bearing surface, as in a plain bearing with a bronze bushing.

Very nice

Great help thanks

Always trust a West Mids engineer. Thanks for the video - really helpful!

Another step towards the finish line. Thanks for posting.

Nicely done Alan. Cheers Nobby

Thanks for sharing 👍

Some good ideas for my own setup :)

My wife is going to be so confused when I come home with a lathe to change my brakes

You spent most of the video jacking the car, then skipped removing the brake assembly over the hub😂

Excellent job Alan. Nice turning work. Looking forward to the next bit. Cheers Nobby

Where is grease nipple in tailstock ?

Precision work

Thanks, I couldn't work out how that fine adjustment dial works, until you demonstrated it!

Nice project mate. Thanks for sharing. If the 4 main holes lined up with the chuck jaws, it would make an easy quick reference for the quadrants.

Hi Alan very good video. I now understand how to use a sine bar on my compound. Another tool I need to make. regards from Western Australia

Having seen (8:20 and on) the concentricity error in your tapping handle, making a better one would be a nice project.

Thanks for sharing Alan. I'm looking forward to the rest of the build. Cheers Nobby

Very nice work sir.

Nicely accomplished Alan. Looking forward to the next step. 👏👏👍😀

I was lucky enough to come across a full metric Boxford CUD MKIII in the USA about 12 years ago. Not sure how it got here but I cleaned it up and replaced a few parts. It's been a good little lathe for home use. I have tried to replace it a few times but always end up selling the replacement lathe instead. China lathes or old worn out USA machines just aren't up to the Boxfords build quality even though it wasn't made with a power cross feed or quick change gear box.

Very nice work sir. You are setting high standards. Very inspiring

nice engine. Is he going to put a governor on it ?

Great idea for the chuck keys Alan. I may copy this. Very nice Beam Engine your brother made. Does he have a CZcams channel? Cheers Nobby

As for the ball ends, nice idea but why not brass?

Nice engine!

… by stuff I meant videos.

Love your stuff Alan. What is make of your ball turner?

thanks Alan, a new video from you always brightens my day.

What's the advantage using a large beam compared to f ex the steam locomotive style?

Very nice work sir. Very interesting

Well explained. I have the BS1 model with a 6" chuck. Quite happy with it. I totally disassembled it and was surprised it was fairly clean inside. I purchased it to make some change gears. & to tell the truth just to prove I could make gears. To make gears requires making a tapered arbore and mounting the work blank between centers. I purchased a set of gear cutters for the tooth pattern I needed. For a one-off gear I've hand ground a tool and made a holder similar to a fly cutter to mount it. Not perfect but the gear runs well enough. Each tooth is cut to full depth in a single pass. I have ruined a couple of gears by losing track of rotational counts. (Pay close attention, it gets boring after multiple teeth cutting!) Keith Rucker has a good video on making bevel gears. I've used Acetal for some gears, and it works well. Both fun and challenging. Even though it can be turned straight up it takes a lot of Z axis space on a mill. Much better off with a rotary table that takes indexing plates for that use.

Very interesting. Good idea. Nice work

Muito bom Aprovado valeu 👍 muito obrigado! Brasil 🇧🇷

Nice, you made it a "Deluxe" model :)

nice one Alan!

As far as I knew all guards have safety interlocks. WARCO gearbox. Does that mean plastic gears? That would worry me a lot. Prices have really come down over the years. A WARCO Super Major milling machine costs about the same as an introductory professional 4 channel oscilloscope with a few options enabled. The top of the range WARCO costs about the same as a mid range R&S oscilloscope with again a few options enabled. I just find that shocking. It is still nice having new toys though.

Nice job. We shared this video on our homemade tool forum last week 😎

Thanks for the tailstock video. Very clear and well photographed. I have an Atlas lathe and use it for turning wood and metal in my small manufacturing and repair shop. Cheers!

A lot of brain work to fit the scales and a fine explanation. Well done ! Thank`s !

An offset tool holder?

Thanks for the video,, I'm gathering the parts to build this myself.

Nicely done Alan, should increase the scope of your ball turning attachment. Cheers Nobby

Thanks for sharing 👍

Good work!

Revisiting this years later because of some of my own recent parting off disasters. Look @9:33 - the insert appears to be crooked in the holder. The tip is off to the right and the back end is not flush with the holder. Note that after it breaks the holder is not centered on the groove. Parting at higher speeds seems to reduce the number of failures.

Unfortunately the video missed out some important steps such as: Can the shoes be removed and replaced without taking out the slave cylinder or the hub to give space? What is the best way to remove/replace the handbrake cable end?

G'day Alan. So simple, but ingenious little tit bit, well done. The only thing I would have done is, to make a longer pipe & a slightly deeper slot in the end. Well done Ted

Neat build! Sometimes it is the simple things! <serious announcer voice > Now you too can build your own inexpensive key! For only the investment of 10000£ and years of training! (Paraphrased from MrPete). I would be interested in your take on a handle for L shaped Allen/Hex keys. These handles turn the “normal” L shaped hex keys into T shaped, but usually with a simple mechanism, back into L. I’ve also seen just an L extension, where you are given a larger end for gripping the small end. To me, it can get complicated to attempt to cover all keys with one handle. Hence the question to you, as you tend to come up with simple, yet effective solutions to many problems. Cheers!🍻

Useful addition, will make life easier.